Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 9 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 425 393 738
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 8.59% 12.96% 15.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.64% 39.98% 48.75%
Number of salaries quoted 217 300 678
10th Percentile £20,000 £26,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,899 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £59,063 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,375 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.17% -9.23%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,302 983 1,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.31% 32.41% 31.01%
Number of salaries quoted 579 583 1,338
10th Percentile £26,950 £26,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £34,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 4 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -15 113 £55,000 - 72
Cambridgeshire +3 91 £65,000 +73.33% 51
Essex -7 74 £41,000 -19.61% 65
Bedfordshire +8 52 £14,000 -72.00% 37
Suffolk +28 50 £47,500 -9.52% 27
Norfolk 0 42 £60,000 +106.90% 29
East Anglia - 3 £95,000 - 16
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 33 (7.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (7.29%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.41%) WordPress
4 4 (0.94%) CMS
5 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (12.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.12%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (1.88%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.18%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 119 (28.00%) Microsoft 365
2 77 (18.12%) Power Platform
3 76 (17.88%) AWS
4 67 (15.76%) Entra ID
5 50 (11.76%) Azure AI
6 18 (4.24%) SaaS
7 17 (4.00%) GitHub
8 16 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
8 16 (3.76%) Snowflake
9 15 (3.53%) GCP
10 14 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (3.29%) PowerApps
11 13 (3.06%) IaaS
12 12 (2.82%) PaaS
13 11 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (2.59%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.41%) OneDrive
15 5 (1.18%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 76 (17.88%) Firewall
2 27 (6.35%) TCP/IP
3 25 (5.88%) DHCP
3 25 (5.88%) VPN
3 25 (5.88%) WAN
4 23 (5.41%) DNS
5 21 (4.94%) LAN
6 12 (2.82%) Internet
6 12 (2.82%) VLAN
7 10 (2.35%) WLAN
8 7 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.41%) Wireless
10 5 (1.18%) Network Security
10 5 (1.18%) SAN
11 4 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.94%) DMZ
11 4 (0.94%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.47%) IP Telephony
13 1 (0.24%) IPv4
13 1 (0.24%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.76%) Power BI
2 50 (11.76%) Tableau
3 17 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.41%) MySQL
7 6 (1.41%) Redis
8 5 (1.18%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.94%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.71%) Big Data
10 3 (0.71%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.47%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.47%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.24%) QlikView
12 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.29%) Git
2 9 (2.12%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.71%) JIRA
4 2 (0.47%) MSTest
4 2 (0.47%) NUnit
4 2 (0.47%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.47%) TestNG
5 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 211 (49.65%) Social Skills
2 49 (11.53%) Finance
3 25 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (4.94%) Law
5 11 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (2.59%) Multimedia
5 11 (2.59%) Publishing
6 10 (2.35%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.18%) Legal
8 5 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (0.94%) Banking
9 4 (0.94%) Retail
10 3 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.71%) Marketing
11 2 (0.47%) Advertising
12 1 (0.24%) Police
12 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (26.82%) Analyst
2 100 (23.53%) Junior
3 96 (22.59%) Junior Analyst
4 70 (16.47%) IT Support
5 48 (11.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 48 (11.29%) Data Analyst
5 48 (11.29%) Junior Data Analyst
5 48 (11.29%) Junior Security Analyst
5 48 (11.29%) Security Analyst
6 43 (10.12%) Architect
7 36 (8.47%) Senior
8 32 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 32 (7.53%) IT Engineer
9 31 (7.29%) Support Engineer
10 29 (6.82%) Developer
11 25 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (5.65%) 2nd Line Support
12 24 (5.65%) Ethical Hacker
12 24 (5.65%) IT Support Engineer
13 22 (5.18%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.47%) CSS
2 15 (3.53%) .NET
3 14 (3.29%) HTML
4 10 (2.35%) REST
5 9 (2.12%) React
6 6 (1.41%) SOAP
7 5 (1.18%) jQuery
7 5 (1.18%) Vue
8 4 (0.94%) SignalR
9 3 (0.71%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.71%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.71%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (0.71%) Kafka
9 3 (0.71%) Playwright
9 3 (0.71%) PyTorch
9 3 (0.71%) RESTful
9 3 (0.71%) TensorFlow
9 3 (0.71%) Web Services
10 2 (0.47%) JWT
10 2 (0.47%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.65%) Cloud Native
1 24 (5.65%) Cyberattack
2 13 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.88%) Low-Code
6 7 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.65%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.41%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.41%) Robotics
8 5 (1.18%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.94%) Blog
9 4 (0.94%) Client/Server
9 4 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (0.94%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.94%) PKI
9 4 (0.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 107 (25.18%) Windows
2 74 (17.41%) Windows Server
3 16 (3.76%) Windows 10
3 16 (3.76%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (3.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (2.59%) Android
6 9 (2.12%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.65%) Linux
8 6 (1.41%) Apple iOS
9 5 (1.18%) VMS
10 1 (0.24%) Windows 2000
10 1 (0.24%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.24%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (29.65%) Cybersecurity
2 86 (20.24%) Mentoring
3 74 (17.41%) AI
4 68 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
5 65 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (11.29%) Agile
8 41 (9.65%) ITIL
9 35 (8.24%) DevOps
10 34 (8.00%) Customer Service
11 32 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 32 (7.53%) Roadmaps
12 31 (7.29%) CI/CD
13 29 (6.82%) Analytics
14 27 (6.35%) ERP
14 27 (6.35%) Software Engineering
15 25 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
16 24 (5.65%) Ethical Hacking
17 23 (5.41%) Technology Roadmap
18 22 (5.18%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 81 (19.06%) Python
1 81 (19.06%) SQL
2 32 (7.53%) PowerShell
3 27 (6.35%) C#
4 23 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.12%) PHP
5 9 (2.12%) R
6 7 (1.65%) Java
7 5 (1.18%) Bash
7 5 (1.18%) C++
8 4 (0.94%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.71%) VBScript
10 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.24%) Bicep
11 1 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 155 (36.47%) Azure Certification
2 48 (11.29%) CompTIA CySA+
2 48 (11.29%) CompTIA Security+
3 45 (10.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 43 (10.12%) Degree
5 38 (8.94%) Security Cleared
6 26 (6.12%) AWS Certification
7 24 (5.65%) CEH
7 24 (5.65%) SC Cleared
8 18 (4.24%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (3.06%) CCNA
9 13 (3.06%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (2.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 10 (2.35%) CCNP
12 8 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.18%) MCSA
13 5 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (0.94%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.29%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.88%) QA
4 6 (1.41%) GDPR
4 6 (1.41%) NIST
5 5 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.18%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.94%) GRC
6 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 4 (0.94%) JSP 440
6 4 (0.94%) NCSC
6 4 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 91 (21.41%) Active Directory
2 22 (5.18%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.29%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.59%) Docker
6 7 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.94%) vSphere
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.88%) Ansible
4 5 (1.18%) SCCM
4 5 (1.18%) Terraform
5 4 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.94%) FortiGate
5 4 (0.94%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.94%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.47%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.24%) Grafana
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 295 (69.41%) Microsoft
2 72 (16.94%) ForeScout
3 29 (6.82%) VMware
4 18 (4.24%) SAP
5 15 (3.53%) Cisco
6 14 (3.29%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.06%) Fortinet
7 13 (3.06%) SolarWinds
8 11 (2.59%) Workday
9 10 (2.35%) Databricks
9 10 (2.35%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.88%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (1.65%) Apple
11 7 (1.65%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.65%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.41%) Aruba
12 6 (1.41%) Google
12 6 (1.41%) Pega
13 5 (1.18%) Epicor
14 4 (0.94%) Citrix